If the gallery is only for looking at other creations, EA wouldn't have put a download button there 😂 The download button is not just decoration 😅 USE IT if you want to.

When some people downloaded a house I created I got really excited and told my boyfriend I was basically a celebrity at this point. (Obviously was joking but I actually felt happy people liked my creation enough to download it!)

Who considers downloading from the gallery as stealing??? I think they're confusing it with creators downloading builds, then reuploading them as their own.

I'm also building up a save file. I use gallery houses and sims just because I want variations. I know that my sims will at one point look the same... so with other peoples sims it gets more divers and fun.

Every time I start a new game, the base game worlds are like this: - Willow Creek: Basic happy family gameplay world. Good schools, friendly neighbors, etc. - Oasis Springs: Crime filled 18+ world. Drugs, gangs, crappy houses (except for the rich part with the grass). - New Crest: Blank. Because I never use that world 😂

I am so glad you brought up johnny zest. Its one of the things I "fixed" in my save file. Just because you disown your family doesn't mean you forget them. I always add him back to the family tree and give them negative relationship bars I also gave eliza and bob twins (Bobbi {girl} and Elijah) and divorce them and add a parent trap style storyline where each takes one twin.

The gallery is one of the best things in the Sims 4 .. I would use rotation by using the manage worlds option because I want my other creations (sims) to be friends or even date with my other creations ( sims ) to make different perspectives from them and their households and that's how my game becomes slightly better

3:39 The first thing I do when I start a new save is fix the Johnny’s relationship with the Landgraabs and add Iggy Pancake to the save. I am working on some proper saves, but those are two quick things I do with every save. It’s not as if I have to worry about messing up relationships, because no one in basegame has any outside their household, so I just switch out the pancakes for the ones on the gallery.

Wow! Had no idea about the NPC Townies! Great tip! xoxo

i have Asperger's and sensory issues, the default game is way too colorful for my eyes after playing for hours. so I'm building a save file where the entire world is neutral colors and earth tones, very muted colors if i want a splash of color here and there. All my townies have makeovers or were created from scratch and they can only wear outfits in neutrals or earth tones... except for a few exceptions that fit their storyline or specific personalities. I've also incorporated cross pack play between all the worlds, my favorite cc items and tons of builds downloaded from the gallery from creators who build similar to my style. If i don't like the colors in the builds, I just replace the swatches or items with the colors i like. doing this makes it so much more aesthetically pleasing for me to play and the entire backdrop of the game just blends better. there is a fun challenge in trying to make every sim different and have their own style despite everyone dressing in similar colors. It's a lot of fun and feels very original.

Bro the gallery is meant to be used. It’s bad enough we don’t have the customization from sims 3. Honestly I’ll usually download from the gallery and edit it a bit whether it be a sim or a house but I do use cc lol

Its crazy how much goes into save files! Thanks for the helpful tips 💗

Thank you for explaining this stuff to us. I appreciate you taking time out of your day to help people along the way. I have been playing Sims 4 for a while now, but I really don't go into the actual gameplay...rather I delight in creating Sims and building/decorating. You give me inspiration to delve deeper in the game. Blessings ~ Gypsy

I always have a helper in my save. This Sim has Handiness, Cooking, Baking, Florist, Juice Fizz skills. This is not a super sim, but he has a lot of advanced skills. For what? I use him to protect outdoor TV screens, outdoor speakers and fireplaces in public areas. I use his skills to build stores with pastries, bread, soda, bouquets, cakes, etc. I love bringing my sims into the store and buying something. For example, in my country, on the first day of school, children give bouquets to teachers. But I don’t want every family to have a florist’s table and grow flowers. that's why I'm going to the store to buy a bouquet. I created a store with soups, salads and hot dishes. I don't know what the correct name for these stores is. I call these stores a prepared food counter (?) For example, my Sim doesn't know how to bake, so he goes to buy a prepared pie. Or my Sim is so busy with work that he doesn't have time to cook, so he goes out and buys cooked food.

I've been working on a save file and TOOL is a great mod to use. Even if you don't use any other mods in a default save, you can put all sorts of things from the vanilla game in the surrounding world using it. Want that bit of land that sticks into the sea in willow creek's Crawdad Quarter to have a wedding arch? Now you can. Want the dock in Magnolia Promenade to have a seafood stall? Now it does. Want Foundry Cove to be set up as an eco-friendly car-free space because there aren't any cars (and your sim won't have any, they're not in the game) travelling along that road so you might as well have some planters and stalls and the like? Now you can. Actually, want to edit this to say that at the very least I recommend putting the NAP community board somewhere in each community (at least those with houses).

I have a tip for the gallery lol, DONT save everything you see that you MAY like to have, only what you want. Or your library will fill up pretty quick lol.

I do most of these things and they're great tips for save files! When you finally have the world the way you want it, ALWAYS "SAVE AS" so you'll always have an original copy. I can't play without Lotharihoe's mod, it's a necessity. And those map overlays are gorgeous, I'm definitely going to download those ASAP! 😍

I've been meaning to make a basemental save with all the gangs and hqs setup. This video gave some inspo! Ty!

I started a save file where I am trying to go through each aspiration with different sims. The gallery has been such a life saver! I have found so many sims and lots that have really helped me build it up. Especially since I have so many packs and so many worlds.

🌞Good Morning! It's a good ideal to create a back up save file before you download CC or new packs, Thank you Satch!

I'm on console. For my save I try to only build in my save file and when I want a fresh save, I will make a new save of it and create a new family. Any sims from my legacies i love and enjoy get saved to the gallery with a short blurb of what i want to do with their story and moved to the base save file. It's a bit convoluted, but it works. I also try to live on different lots each time I play and if there is a house I particularly like that I've built for them it gets moved to that same lot on my save file as well. Sometimes when sims are moved from their legacy save I can try out new stories with them I couldn't in their original file. It's fun. I turned aging off and have a sim named Kal Ector whose sole mission in life I'd to find all the collectables for my Oasis Springs Museum of Natural Science. She is also my test sim for my builds.

You read my mind! I have decided to tackle my first save file and I want to do everything. I really enjoy my current main save, so I want to turn that into my save file. Really enjoyed your tips - it's how I also think about going about this

This was super helpful!! I love playing Sims on my Xbox, but I’m definitely not a pro 😅 Making save-files & the whole mechanics/technical side of The Sims can be daunting. This really helped clear things up & inspired gameplay ideas! I currently only have two save files: “Life 1” & “Life B” 😂 One is my original 1st save ever from when I started playing The Sims 4, it just has my “Simself” & the other save has my newer “Legacy Challenge” household. I could’ve just saved them in the same save-file, but oh well 🙃

This video was so beyond helpful!! I've been playing for about a year now and I finally FINALLY know what a safe fille is and what it's for. You made everything so easy to understand and follow! You are now my hero! I adore you, thank you so much!

It's about time that I start a Save File! This is embarrassing, but I have lost so many awesome builds in the past from not doing a save file. I Must Do This.

This is genius. I never even thought about this. I literally made the perfect save. No joke I literally spent almost a year perfecting it but it got corrupted so I had to delete it. (I didn't have to but it's a bit like having hair that's heat damaged. You have to get rid of it). I wish I had saved a template of it before it got ruined. It would have been so lush 😂

I just started a legacy challenge in February… now I want to start making my own save file. I’m gonna be busy sim wise 🤣

Satch: "Decide what kind of save you want to make" Me: ALL OF THEM Don't forget to edit the calendar =)

Your latest uploads are acctually brilliant, Satch! Very inspiring!

The thing I've learned is to get my community lots squared away first. A good community lot, with lots of activities, really makes the game feel more alive. And all my new broke households will all go to one lot to get their skills up and meet people. Putting a graveyard in magnolia park for example, really adds to it. Sims from non active households will go mourn at the grave and for a few days after a sim dies you'll see them moping around. But also, base game versions of, community gardens, makers spaces, etc really adds a lot to the game. Once they're done, you don't feel like you need perfect houses as much because there's great central places to visit.

thank you for keeping it so simple with this one! i really wanna try out creating a tiny save file from zero (new crest), but I also love the idea of seeing it as an extension of willow creek! i already know i'll have to rewatch a couple of times (and probably take notes) 😂

Time stamps are so useful I was sad to realize there were none 😭

You know, I have to say that it never bothered me that Johnny is not in their family tree. I always thought of the Landgraabs as a big spread out family, and it doesn't say that he is THEIR son just that he is a Landgraab so I thought of him as a far off cousin. It wasn't for a while later when people started saying that the sims team messed up with him that I was like "Oh, I see".

Omg I've never even thought about saving the NPC random townies!! Wow😮

Eveytime I play the sims I always make an extra one to be the love interest of my sim cause the base game sims are so boring, making my own save file has been so much fun, now I have a bunch of cool sims to chose as my partner!

I've been working on recreating other (less open world) video games in The Sims 4. Im currently working on an Undertale save file. I'm just finishing up NPCs for Snowdin, them I'm on to waterfall!

Me and my mum love your videos especially the let’s plays 💜

Omg, I've waited for this video!!!

I’m currently building my Scenario Save file. Thought it was a great idea. Thanks

I'm also building a save file. Thanks for the tips. I do feel that adding mods to the save file is essential.

In one of my rotational games where I am playing as the default townies in each world (I have purchased only 3 expansion packs so far so I have access to only those 3 worlds plus the base game worlds), what I do is play as one household in one world for one sims week, then move on to another household in the next world. Windenburg from the Get Together pack has 9 default households, so that's the only world where I play as two or more households consecutively before moving on to the next world. I have unplayed households set to age up in this rotational. In another rotational game where I play as the original 40 Maxis sims, I actually use a wheel from Wheel Decide to determine which sim I play as next after each sim week. However, if the wheel lands on a sim that I already played for the current rotation, I re-spin and hope it lands on another sim that I haven't already played as. Unplayed households are set to not age up in this rotational, but it should be fine to change it back and forth periodically. Played households in both rotationals are set to only the household I am actively playing as will age up. Lastly, I have a household of 8 sims that I want to save to the Gallery, but one of their names contains a word that EA or Maxis deems as "inappropriate". I have an idea on which one it might be, but I will list the names below for others to see and determine which name is the red flag to confirm my suspicions. Whitney Ashkenazi Georgia Grimlowe Vanessa Quickloft Elizabeth Rassmuht Emilia Salvanne Leanne Stoman Clairenna Tristellisse Genevieve Valburghie

I LOVEEE THE GALLERY. ♡♡

this came at the perfect time! i started creating one yesterday haha

Been playing Sims 4 since Mid January this year, and only recently found out I didn't have to create a new save for each household 😂 Now I'm working on building up Newcrest, but I'm such a newb and don't have a clear goal in mind

listening while working on my current save file.

Yes! Would LOVE to see your save file!!!

Rotational is my favorite way to play now. So much teaaa

Wait who says you're stealing from the gallery? You can't steal anything on there unless try to take credit for someone else's build. I've seen people download someone else's creation and then reupload it without the original person's name just so they can get the credit for the build.

Newcrest is my communityhub for all worlds that are "green" and Euro-Americanstyled like Willow Creek, Windenburg, San Sequoia, Del Sol Valley, Henford etc. San Myshino is more mixed but also the city that caters for Sulani, Tomarang etc. Magnolia Promenade is my "Vegas" where I put in a bad vibe with stripclubs, casino and that kind of stuff. Oasis Springs, Chestnut Ridge and Strangeville is also connected in my brain but more rural and mixed with basics. There is a vet in Chestnut Ridge in my game. Those horses need care and if a cat in Oasis Springs is sick, it has to go the Chestnut Ridge and not to the vet in Newcrest. I really need hotels to make those hubs even more logic. I put vacation rentals in it but still... My Magnolia Promenade needs a shady motel.

great guide 👍

One thing I like to do, is take the sims of my favorite KZfaqrs and put them in my savefile. Makes it feel like I'm playing with them.

I have been adding a bunch of Agnes crumplebottom I have 7 in one house and i have been giving them jobs and then i plan to have a whole world of them lol

Amazing video ❤

Yessss I use the gallery allll the time 😅😅….cant use nothing now because TS4 is broken and won’t work 😫🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️……but yes the gallery is an awesome tool to utilize

I love putting my home and community builds up on the gallery, I don’t care if they get downloaded that’s the whole point of the gallery! 😂

Hmm . . . I might try my hand at making a save file now . . .

Oh. I didn’t even know I was doing this

Omg I thought you actually went bald 😂

I would love to see your savefile

I've been thinking of starting a new save, just because Mortimer keeps leaving Bella and the kids, and Katrina seems to be automatically pregnant with Don's baby, but then she leaves the house and moves in with Kristopher, the werewolf, or another random sim. And for some reason Marcus Flex marry Judith Ward 40% of the time. While it was interesting at first, I think I'm getting bored of that drama 😅

What my proses is is I delete everything bulldoze E-VER-E-THING and then delete every house hold and then I go in and make the houses and the sims

Satch, please show us your save file! 💙

I don't own every pack kit etc. Wish the gallery will let us filter out packs, because the filter they have does NOT work

Satch no problem just to let you know the time stamps aren't appearing for me

20:06 me making my savefile while watching the video 👀

I hope someone can reply to this comment, but I need help. So I’ve been having trouble adding mods. I use curseforge to add mods and can’t seem to add sims 4 to it. When I make it search my files, I cannot find my game. How do I fix this??

I want to create a save file where every family is some kind of occult - any tips gratefully appreciated. I will be getting the builds off of the gallery because I can't build for shit but will be a bit limited as I don't own most of the packs.

Yo Satch, what's the name of the typeface (font) you've been using in your recent videos and thumbnails? Just curious that's all

Omg so now there's going to be an influx of Sims 4 save files uploaded for the public to have to sift through to find someone they actually want which is functional lol😂

Does this work for consoles? I'm an Xbox player so I'm not sure how to transfer my stuff over to a hard drive 😅

I would make a more in-depth save file if we had a mod that PREVENTED TOWNIES FROM ROAMING IN BETWEEN WORLDS! HOLY SHIT I JUST WANT EACH WORLD TO BE ITS OWN THEME SINCE OPEN WORLD IS NOT A THING IN THIS DAMN GAME!!!!

Hi satchyyy

Speaking of the Gallery...it's disappeared from my game. The light bulb icon only opens my library. Anyone know what's up with that?

I guess we forgot timestamps lol but thank you for the info

I DO LIKE TO SEE UR SAVE FILES SATCH

i cant even load the game anymore 😓 i havent updated since september 2023 cuz i dont wanna spent 20 minutes opening the app js for the UI to glitch, close and update MORE mods ane cc, spend 20 minutes opening the app and repeat until i give up the frequent updates dont benefit me in any way and i dont want that greedy shopping cart on my screen

Show us your save file pls

Did you end up showing your save file?

19 DAMN VIEWS 1 MIN AGO OMG IM SO FVCKING EARLY

But do you need to do this in a save file? It can't be done in the normal file?.. I dont get it.

i dont find the times stapes

is anyone else havign trouble lately travelling anywhere in the sims 4 without the game crashing??

Satch you've been staying at a new baes house haven't you

hello lad

Is anyone playing still playing with the horses? I didn't think so. 😂😢🙄

You are free to use the gallery only if you are not going to share this save file further. Otherwise it 's illegal and you have to build every lot and create every sim yourself.

Did someone say Sims 3 ?

Lotharihoe😂😂😂